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Here are 5 pieces of tech that will take you back
to the good old days
Official teenager
status symbol!
Before iPod was a twinkle in Apple’s eye
Classic handheld gaming device
Choose your CD or cassette
carefully (you’ll be listening
to it all day)
Listen without parents
complaining
Make it your own
with stickers
Doesn’t fit
in any pockets
Screen comprises of about
four shades of grey
Amazing 8-bit
graphics and
music
D-pad and pink buttons (before it
was cool to have matchy-matchy
buttons)
The attachments -
speakers, magnifier,
camera, printer…
If it doesn’t work, just
blow into the cartridge
Before Wikipedia, there was Encarta
Homework? Research sortedExplore the castle
in MindMaze
Want to know what a
Tiger sounds like?
Hello, sound clips!
Around 42,000 articles
(compared to the 5m that
Wikipedia has…)
Ongoing stress of your
pet dying at any moment
Satisfying egg shape
Videos (always educational)
Microsoft Encarta - 1993
We loved our pixelated pets
Tamagotchi -1996*
The perfect ‘dumbphone’
Nokia 3310 - 2000
Nintendo Game Boy - 1989
Sony Walkman - 1979
Brings out the caring
side in all of us
Drop it on concrete and
it will be fine
Text character
limit – no essays!
DIY Tubular Bells
ringtone
Solve any problem by
taking the battery out
Keep it fed, play with it, clean up its
poop, put it to bed – repeat!
Beeps frustratingly
(including in the
middle of the
night)
Battery lasts FOREVER
Changeable fascias
Who doesn’t
love Snake?
Share with a friend and make their day!
#TreasuredMemories
*Tamagotchi image by Tomasz Sienicki [user: tsca, mail: tomasz.sienicki at gmail.com] (Own work) [GFDL (http://ww-
w.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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- 1. safe.co.uk @TalkWithSafe Here are 5 pieces of tech that will take you back to the good old days Official teenager status symbol! Before iPod was a twinkle in Apple’s eye Classic handheld gaming device Choose your CD or cassette carefully (you’ll be listening to it all day) Listen without parents complaining Make it your own with stickers Doesn’t fit in any pockets Screen comprises of about four shades of grey Amazing 8-bit graphics and music D-pad and pink buttons (before it was cool to have matchy-matchy buttons) The attachments - speakers, magnifier, camera, printer… If it doesn’t work, just blow into the cartridge Before Wikipedia, there was Encarta Homework? Research sortedExplore the castle in MindMaze Want to know what a Tiger sounds like? Hello, sound clips! Around 42,000 articles (compared to the 5m that Wikipedia has…) Ongoing stress of your pet dying at any moment Satisfying egg shape Videos (always educational) Microsoft Encarta - 1993 We loved our pixelated pets Tamagotchi -1996* The perfect ‘dumbphone’ Nokia 3310 - 2000 Nintendo Game Boy - 1989 Sony Walkman - 1979 Brings out the caring side in all of us Drop it on concrete and it will be fine Text character limit – no essays! DIY Tubular Bells ringtone Solve any problem by taking the battery out Keep it fed, play with it, clean up its poop, put it to bed – repeat! Beeps frustratingly (including in the middle of the night) Battery lasts FOREVER Changeable fascias Who doesn’t love Snake? Share with a friend and make their day! #TreasuredMemories *Tamagotchi image by Tomasz Sienicki [user: tsca, mail: tomasz.sienicki at gmail.com] (Own work) [GFDL (http://ww- w.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons 5 things that’LL make YOU for old tech /TalkWithSafe